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Book Recommendation: Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley
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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (Revised Edition)
Margaret Wheatley showed how the “New Science”—revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology that are overturning centuries-old images of the universe—provides powerful insights into the design, leadership, and management of organizations. Continue reading
Leadership is about tapping the energy to create something that matters deeply
The following simple definition of leadership has proved quite helpful in change projects over the years: the capacity of a human community—people living and working together—to bring forth new realities.
Another way to say this is that leadership energizes. Leadership breathes life into an enterprise, without which nothing truly new can emerge. The word inspire, long associated with leadership, derives from the Latin inspirare, literally “to breathe life into.” Continue reading
Let’s try and avoid death in small doses
“He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly. Continue reading
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” ― Denis Waitley
There is so much talk about the system….
“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. Continue reading
the first task of a leader is to make sure the organization knows itself….
How would you define a good leader today? Continue reading
singular periods of life lived to the fullest….
When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. Continue reading
Violence
“Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. Continue reading
“When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
What traps most of us is relying more and more on what made us successful, without thinking about what success means. So we rely on knowledge, skills, or old formulas that may become increasingly overextended and out of touch. Continue reading
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